I analyze the characteristics of Puerto Rican migrants and non-migrants to make two contributions to existing literature: (1) The empirical analysis demonstrates that contrary to previous studies done on only working men, ...

In the presidential campaign rhetoric of 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon discovered a shared middle-ground in regard to colonialism, a major issue of the year due to widespread decolonization ...

This study draws on critical sources such as Lukács’s Theory of the Novel and Benjamin’s
essay “The Storyteller”, and on the ideas of Aristotle, Arendt, and
Murdoch, among others, to examine the structures – such as ...

Brazil’s plans to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics have provoked both euphoria and criticism domestically. Some believe that hosting successful games will cement the country’s position as a world power and ...

The motivation for my honors thesis springs from our often irresolvable disagreements about moral and political issues in the public square: issues ranging from educational and economic reform to health care and immigration ...

This thesis attempts to unravel the “webs of significance” (Geertz 1973: 5) surrounding English in the local context of Seoul, South Korea, a country that spends close to two percentage of its GDP on English learning and ...

When Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation lost the presidential election of 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro of the National Opposition Union, the autonomous women’s movement began and the number ...

This paper investigates comparative public attitudes as a mechanism to explain American welfare state “exceptionalism” in health care. The countries of Germany, Great Britain, and the United States were chosen as three ...

This paper examines what factors influence a government’s ability to be effective and responsive in the context of the British Petroleum Oil Spill. A case study of the response of three counties in Florida was conducted, ...

What factors make a difference in whether low socioeconomic status youth attend college, and how do some youth succeed despite lacking many advantages? In general, in both the U.S. and India youth who benefit from supportive ...

Admissions policies have adapted a fluid construct, allowing for changes that suit the upcoming academic year. This paper will describe the changing admissions policies that characterized the 1930s and the 1970s, looking ...

Migration is indispensable for many families in the poorest sections of rural India. In Rajasthan, migration is largely pursued by men, while women maintain the home in the village. Based on my ethnographic research in ...

This project examines the language used to frame universal health care reform from 1945 to 2009, focusing on four frames: morality, efficacy, personal vulnerability, and fear of government. It analyzes whether the frames ...

In response to the changing family and social structures in the United States, an
accurate understanding of mechanisms and the driving forces of marrital dissolution is
important in many aspects. For one, the knowledge ...

What can account for the failure of economists to extend a firm guiding hand into the public discourse on material inequality in contemporary America? This paper reviews historical and modern economic literature and then ...

The purpose of this study is to research the emotional effect of undocumented immigration on humanitarian aid works within the organization, No More Deaths. No More Deaths is a service organization that focuses on providing ...

In the popular narrative of the civil rights movement in the United States, the role of women often becomes minimized or overlooked altogether; yet women played a critical part in engaging racial issues in their communities ...

In order to examine the disparity between the number of women in engineering at Duke in comparison to the long-term presence and dominance of men, I will examine three separate time periods and show the change that occurs ...

I investigate how the World Health Organization (WHO) perceives traditional medicine. The WHO has issued publications related to traditional medicine for decades, acknowledging and commenting on traditional medicine as a ...

Current literature has extensively noted the sizeable Islamic Extremist online media campaign, but has not studied the relationship of this online world with the violent extremist activities of the actual world, and more ...